By Alena Mae S. Flores | Posted on July 10, 2012 | 12:01am
The Energy Department on Monday proposed National Power Corp. to supply electricity to Puerto Princesa City starting December amid Mayor Edward Hagedorn’s declaration of a state of emergency.
The move came after Palawan Electric Cooperative’s failure to choose a power supplier for the second time, threatening damage to the booming tourism industry and crippling businesses.
“To address present and future demand, there have been continuous discussions between Paleco officials and the DOE on the possible involvement of NPC to provide for additional power by December to help mitigate the power supply deficit,” Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras said in a statement.
Puerto Princesa suffered up to three hour brownouts last week.
Almendras said Paleco has set a voluntary load curtailment program joined by big load consumers as a stop gap measure amid recurrent power outages in the last two months due to the breakdown in the generating units of power providers, Palawan Power Generation Inc. and Delta P.
Paleco, since April last year, initiated bidding for its third new power provider in anticipation of the expiration on October 2013 of the Napocor-PALECO Interim Supply Agreement for 10 megawatts to 45MW of energy.
The bidding covers supply of 25MW of electricity to cover the replacement of supply coming from Napocor and the additional demand.
Peak demand in Palawan is 30.5 MW while power supply from present providers total 35.5 MW.
A new provider is expected to deliver power in the island by September 2013. source
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